I’m a very new Linux user running Fedora with KDE, as of a few weeks ago.

I have some super basic questions about updates through Discover.

Background: There are new updates available nearly every day. The list of updates can get very long and is a text-based list, including many undecipherable things. Unless I were to search for each and every one.

For example, today’s update list includes the following entries:

cups
Upgrade to new version 1:2.4.16-7.fc43
Release notes:
fix cupsd endless loop on busy servers (fedora#2446938)
cups-client
Upgrade to new version 1:2.4.16-7.fc43
Release notes:
fix cupsd endless loop on busy servers (fedora#2446938)
cups-filesystem
Upgrade to new version 1:2.4.16-7.fc43
Release notes:
fix cupsd endless loop on busy servers (fedora#2446938)
libtasn1
Upgrade to new version 4.21.0-1.fc43
Release notes:
Update to 4.21.0; fixes CVE-2025-13151
vim-minimal
Upgrade to new version 2:9.2.148-1.fc43
Release notes:
patchlevel 148 
Security fix for CVE-2026-32249
zlib-ng-compat
Upgrade to new version 2.3.3-2.fc43
Release notes:
Fix RISC-V build

Yes, I could look up what these are, but that seems impractical given that each day there are dozens of updates and I really don’t want to spend the time on this.

So onto my questions:

1. Should I just run all these updates as they come up? Do you all run these updates as they pop up?

2. Are you all getting this many updates on Fedora or is it something specific to me and the apps I’m running? I installed Fedora as-is and installed maybe 10 additional applications. So I shouldn’t have anything super custom. Computer is a 5 year old ASUS laptop with AMD.

3. Is there a way to de-select some updates if I don’t want to run all of them?

4. Should I ignore daily updates and install them less frequently, say monthly? Meaning, I’m not super interested in being the glitch finder. If there’s a bug in an update, I’d rather have somebody else find it first and have the update patched.

General Fedora feedback: the discover update app feels lacking here. As a new user, I expect more of a description about what each application/service is as well as a clickable link to read more about the app and the update.